page_title: Aquatic Warbler Memorandum of Understanding
section_title: Development of MoU
hierarchical_section_title: Aquatic Warbler Memorandum of Understanding / Development of MoU
caption_attribution_description: English: Minsk Meeting for the development of the Aquatic Warbler Memorandum of Understanding, 29-30 April 2003.
context_page_description: The Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation Measures for the Aquatic Warbler is a multilateral environmental memorandum of understanding concluded in 2003 under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals, also known as the Bonn Convention. This MoU provides the basis for governments, NGO's and scientists to work together to save the aquatic warbler, Europe's rarest songbird. The MoU covers 22 range states. As of August 2012, 16 range states have signed the MoU as well as two cooperating organizations.
context_section_description: A meeting of the range states of the aquatic warbler was held in Minsk, Belarus, from 29 to 30 April 2003, to negotiate and adopt a MoU and action plan for the conservation of the species. The meeting was co-organized by the CMS Secretariat in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus, BirdLife International, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and APB-BirdLife Belarus. Representatives from 12 range states were present and the MoU was adopted and entered into effect on 30 April 2003.
  Signatories to the Aquatic Warbler MoU: 
  Belarus (30 April 2003)
  Bulgaria (30 April 2003)
  Germany (30 April 2003)
  Hungary (30 April 2003)
  Latvia (30 April 2003)
  Lithuania (30 April 2003)
  Senegal (30 April 2003)
  Spain (30 April 2003)
  United Kingdom (30 April 2003)
  Ukraine (21 May 2003)
  Poland (13 July 2004)
  Belgium (24 November 2005)
  France (14 May 2010)
  Mali (14 May 2010)
  Luxembourg (19 July 2010)
  Switzerland (22 November 2011)
  In addition, two organizations signed the MoU:
  CMS Secretariat (30 April 2003)
  BirldLife International (30 April 2003)
caption: Minsk Meeting 29–30 April 2003
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